Mechanical Design Engineer

SIDDHARTH GULATI

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www.sitemaker.umich.edu/siditis

Objective To work full-time as a Mechanical Product Design Engineer, beginning 2009

Education University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

M.S., Industrial and Operations Engineering, GPA: 3.70/4.0 December 2008

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, GPA: 3.72/4.0 April 2008

Courses: Integrated Product Development, Global Product Development, Measurement and Design of Work, Design for Manufacturability, Human Performance & Engineering Systems, Occupational Biomechanics, Intermediate Dynamics, Statistical Quality Control

National Institute of Technology (N.I.T.), Warangal, India May 2006

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, GPA: 3.6/4.0

Courses: Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines, CAD/CAM, Machine Design, Engineering Graphics, Automation and Robotics, Industrial Management, Mechanical Vibrations

Experience Speck Design, Palo Alto CA Summer 2008

Mechanical Engineering Product Design Intern

• Part of 3-member team working on Robotic Firefighter Assistant for “Prototype This”. The new Discovery Channel show’s episode aired on November 19, 2008.

• Worked on a few other confidential projects.

Graduate Student Instructor for IOE 334, Ergonomics Lab Jan ‘06 – April ‘08

Research Assistant in HUMOSIM Lab in the Center for Ergonomics, IOE department: Motion behavior analysis of body segments of vehicle occupants under vibration exposure.

JCB India Limited – India December 2003

Mechanical Engineering Intern at the Assembly Line

Projects Cocoon: Portable Sanitation Fall 2008

• For the course Integrated Product Development, one of top 60 design courses in the world. 2008 Problem Statement and Teams index:

http://www.tauber.umich.edu/News%20and%20Events/IPD/2008/index.htm

• Cocoon won the best product award. It won by more than double profit margin. My interview published: http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/Departments/TMI/HTML-Email/2008/Newsletter_2008-Dec-UM3.htm

• Development of an innovative waterless commode system as part of total system

Backpack Suspension Compliant Mechanism Winter 2008

• A one piece mechanism to support backpack load

• Drastic reduction in shoulder and back problems

Internet-ready Collapsible Shopping Cart Fall 2007

• Cart that can fit in a car trunk along with the merchandise

• Efficiently shared by households via internet, addresses sustainability issues

Conformal Holder for Cars Winter 2007

• Design and analysis of a ‘Conformal Holder’

• Project was sponsored and supervised by GM

Washing Machine without an impellor Winter 2006

• Design and Prototype Development

• Setup kept in the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory at NIT Warangal

Flexible guided pipes Winter 2006

• Concept of hose pipe heads that can be maneuvered from far behind

• Research presentation and prototype demonstration

FuncSION (Functional Synthesis of Input Output Networks) Summer 2005

• At Center for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

• Development of software application for 3-D simulation and animation of mechanisms

National Fellowship at IIT Madras Summer 2005

• Qualified amongst top 100 applicants for the fellowship

• Proposal of a purely mechanical jumping robot

Foldable Spanner Unit for zero-gravity Winter 2005

• Developed to be used with one hand/no hands in a zero gravity environment, without any reaction on the body

• Invention received an Indian provisional patent, filed on June 24th 2005

Feeding Aid for quadriplegics Winter 2005

• Design and prototype development

• Also made a research paper on this that won first prize at Tryst-05, National Level Technical Fest at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.

Wired controlled game robot Winter 2005

• Design and manufacturing, for a gaming contest at Cognizance-05, National Technical Festival of IIT Roorkee

• Design selected for the final round of Best Design prize

Logarithmically Decaying Vibratory motion Analyzer Fall 2004

• Calculated Damping Coefficient based on the vibration curve obtained

• Setup installed in the NIT Warangal’s Mechanical Vibrations laboratory

Skills

Prototyping/Manufacturing

All machine tools, Fanuc CNC programming, wood shop equipment, metal forming and cutting, welding, vacuum forming, etc.

Computer Applications: SolidWorks, ADAMS, AutoCAD, Rhino, IDEAS, CES Edupack, PDMWorks, Ansys WorkBench and Pro/Engineer.

Languages: MATLAB, C++, Basics of VC++ and OpenGL

Activities Student Member of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)

Event Organizer and Manager of “I-Robot”, Robot Design Contest in national level symposium Sanyantrik06, held in January ’06, conducted by Dept. of ME, NIT Warangal

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